AMST 298 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: First Indochina War, Pathet Lao, Domino Theory

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: American Studies
• Course: AMST 298
• Professor: Terry Parks

Document Summary

Amst298 lecture 7: vietnam war and the asian experience. Waves of refugees coming from 1975 to 1980 and from the 80s on. Was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that posited that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a . United states administrations during the cold war to justify the need for american intervention around the world. France grants independence to laos and cambodia in 1953. Dien bien phu-vietnam beats france in 1954. Democratic republic of vietnam (north vietnam), the state of vietnam (the future republic of vietnam / south vietnam), the kingdom of cambodia, and the kingdom of laos. A former mandarin of the nguy n dynasty, he was named prime minister of the state of vietnam by head of state b o i in 1954.